News North Korea » Culture: North Korean cheerleaders sing 'We are one!' in Games culture clash

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - As Switzerland demolished a unified Korean hockey team at the Pyeongchang winter Olympics on Saturday, despondent home fans at least had another contest to distract them; a clash of cultures featuring North and South ...

A consumerist culture is taking shape in Pyongyang ... The message here is that living standards are increasing despite North Korea’s increasing isolation from the international economy. An essential aspect of Washington’s economic coercion strategy ...

News North Korea » Culture: Winter Olympics 2018: Get in the spirit with North Jersey's Olympians, Korean culture

The Olympics are upon us, with the spotlight on all things Korean while the Games take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The opening ceremony has cemented the event into memory, and North Jersey's Korean population has been riding the high of South Korea ...

News North Korea » Culture: The AP Asks: What would South Koreans ask a North Korean?

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — The Koreas share a border, a culture and a language. But 70 years after they were separated, North and South are about as divided as divided gets. With almost any kind of contact blocked or barred or banned by law ...

News North Korea » Culture: In South Korea's Olympic hills, traces of the North abound

The photo displayed this week showed no scratches. In 2000, when then South Korean Culture Minister Park Jie-won visited North Korea, he handed Kim Jong Il an album of photos from the villa. Park, now an opposition politician, said Kim first pretended not ...

News North Korea » Culture: Want to Take on North Korea? Engage Its People.

Researchers estimate that some 30 percent of North Koreans regularly listen to foreign radio broadcasts, a mix of U.S. (Voice of America/Radio Free Asia), South Korean and Chinese programing. Even more pervasive is ROK pop culture. Explained Thae Yong-ho ...

News North Korea » Culture: South and North Korean officials continue exchange during Olympics

... would host a high-level luncheon at a hotel in eastern Seoul for ten North Korean delegates and 12 members from the South including Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon and Culture Minister Do Jong-hwan. The meeting comes a day after the North's ...

News North Korea » Culture: Olympics 2018: Arirang, the folk song that unites South Korea and North Korea

South Korean bobsledder Won Yun-jong and North Korean ice hockey player Hwang Chung-geum led ... the Olympic spirit of "peace" and "concord." It also speaks to the culture and spirit of Korean people. Arirang was inscribed on the UNESCO’s list of ...